Curtain-pin.



PATBNTBD NOV. 15, 1904.

R. M. SEWARD.

GURTAIN PIN.

APPLICATION FILED PEB.13,1904.

NO MODEL.

INVENTOR BY v ATTORNEYzS.

WITNESSES:

UNITED STATES Patented November 15, 1904.

RUSSELL M. SEWARD, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO;

CURTAIN-PIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 774,993, dated November 15, 1904.

Application filed February 13, 1904. Serial No. 193,391. (No model- To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RUssELL M. SEWARD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Golumbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Curtain-Pins, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to curtain-pins of that class which are adapted for use in pinning the borders of lace curtains to carpets for the purpose of stretching and drying the same.

The objects of my invention are to provide an improved pin of this character of superior construction, to provide an improved construction of curtain-pin whereby a plurality of lace curt ins may be held in properlystretched conditions by the same pin, and to produce other improvements in details of construction, which will be more fully pointed out hereinafter. 7

These objects I accomplish in the manner illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in

' which- Figure 1 is a view in perspective of my improved pin. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same; and Fig. 3 is a sectional view through portions of a carpet and two curtains, showing the manner of utilizing my invention.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In carrying out my invention I form my improved pin of a single piece of wire 1, the latter being bent at a suitable distance from one of its ends to form an upright or vertical loop 2, the terminal portion of this loop 2 being again bent to form a rearwardly-extending and substantially horizontal loop 3 at the base of theloop 2. The terminal portion of the loop 3 is continued from said loop forwardly and coiled, as indicated at 4, adesirable number of times about the rear or inner portion of the forwardly-extending pin member 5 in front of the loop 2. The coil & terminates in an up-' wardly-projecting or vertical pin member 6, and the pin member 5, which forms the other terminal of the wire; is preferably curved slightly upward and provided with a pointed termination, as shown.

In utilizing the pin formed as above described the loop 3 is intended to be grasped -such as is indicated at 9, the open-work border of the latter is engaged by the upwardlyprojecting pin member 6, thus providing for the pinning of more than one curtain to a carpet or other floor-covering in such manner as to bring the curtains held thereby one above the other, thereby overcoming the necessity of employing a separate set of pins for each curtain to be stretched and dried.

It will be observed that by the construction described my improved pin is formed of but one piece of wire and that the same is so bent or looped as to not only provide means for readily and easily grasping and inserting the same, but to form a double pin-body of desirable rigidity.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a curtain-pin, an extended carpet-engaging prong, an uprightloop supported from the prong. a horizontal loop extending rearwardly from the upright loop, and a curtainengaging pin supported by the prong in juxtaposition to the upright loop.

2. A curtain-pin comprising a single piece of wire having a pointed pin-terminal portion 5, said wire being bent at the inner termination of said pin portion 5 to form an upright oop 2, the latter being continued to form a horizontal loop at the base of the loop 2 and said horizontal loop portion being continued forward, wound about the rear portionof the pin 5 in front of the loop 2 and thence projected upward to form a substantially vertical pin 6, substantially as specified.

RUSSELL M. SEWVARD.

In presence of- C. C. SHEPHERD, W. L. MoRRow. 

